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To All, (...) well, an maybe some corner parts for the roofs. Now, I have to find some brown buildings to build. I am sure the castle heads will love it! Scott S. -- ***...*** Please visit (URL) (24 years ago, 20-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
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Folks, I may be daft and missed this but there are some new bulk bricks and slopes in the Spring 2000 catalog. They are all Brown!!! (URL) only downer is there arn't 1x4 bricks or 2x2 slopes but I am not complaining. I have other sources for the 2x2 (...) (24 years ago, 20-Feb-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct) !
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(...) Eric, whats on the cover of that catalog and when did you get it? Jonathan (24 years ago, 20-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) in (...) I got it today and it has the Alpha team on the Cover. Eric Kingsley (24 years ago, 20-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) That would be Spring 2001... Duh... (...) (24 years ago, 20-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) More good news from LEGO Direct!! I am happy to pass on some bulk brick news. Eric beat me to the announcement since I have been really busy this morning! The next round of bulks will be the following selection: SKU Size/Color Name Qty. 3751 (...) (24 years ago, 20-Feb-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) It certainly is! I love the Bulk Bricks, and it makes me smile whenever the choices get expanded. I used to look at the brick collections that were available (you know, "Blue Bricks", which would be an assortment of 1xN and 2xN bricks, etc) (...) (24 years ago, 20-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) <snip> (...) Boy I hope we are both being bad with dates today... If we have to wait until Feb. 29 that means we will have to wait until 2004 ;-). I bet you meant either Feb. 28 or Mar. 1. Eric Kingsley (24 years ago, 20-Feb-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego.direct)
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(...) As far as I know, Lego has never made a 1x4 in brown. The 1x6 and 1x2 have appeared in many, many sets in the past five years, so it makes sense that they could be offered in bulk. It's quite a challenge to build stuff with no 1x4s, but (...) (24 years ago, 20-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) someday..... LOL, well it would still be mighty expensive even at bulk brick prices..... (24 years ago, 21-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
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A little editing: (...) publicly available (...) There. That's better. :-) ++Lar (24 years ago, 21-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) nestled in its branches or a pirate ship with all brown hulls. No need to part out the naboo swamp and speeder bikes sets now. But where is the 1x1? (24 years ago, 21-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) And inside you can see some of the cool Alpha Team vehicles, including a "tool" platform that launches two "tools" with the push of a button! Dave! (24 years ago, 21-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) OK OK! I'm going to now scour the books for any sign of non-publically available 1x4. -Erik (24 years ago, 21-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I would imagine that, just like the green 2x2x3 corner slope, it just takes a bit of detecive work at one of the Legolands... James (24 years ago, 21-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I'll second this. I recently finished a large-ish gray spaceship, and by the time I got to the end, I was piecing together 1x1 bricks with parts stolen from my wife's mosaic. I'd really like to see bulk bricks in odd-numbered sizes (i.e. 1x1 & (...) (24 years ago, 21-Feb-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Well, I know for sure that #7144 (Slave 1) had two of them. Probably not the best source for these however... Bye, Christian --- xTIAN. ---...--- Lugnet Member #479 -- The World is full of AFOLs ! mail: xtian@brickmaster.de web: (...) (24 years ago, 21-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
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I am very happy to see the new colors but I still have one question: WHAT ABOUT YELLOW? Seriously, It's not as if yellow is a rare color, I mean they make Tan, Green, and now Brown, but still no yellow. Lego Direct if you are out there "think (...) (24 years ago, 21-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
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OK, now what we have to do is to figure out what 45 degree brown slopes are available, and which ones aren't (too bad Rob Farver isn't around to help here). I know I've seen a few of these around. So we now have the 4x2 sloped brick, and the 4x2 (...) (24 years ago, 21-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Well the only ones I know of for sure are the 1x2 and 2x2 regular slopes and the roof ridge half pyramid (triple convex). Unfortunately that doesn't allow for any comples roofs just yet but hopefully LD is considering some, if not all, of the (...) (24 years ago, 21-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
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"Gary Istok" <gistok@umich.edu> wrote in message news:3A940E0A.1FADF3...ich.edu... (...) There are a bunch of 2x2 slopes in the 7184 MTT ((URL) Walsh - mike_walsh at mindspring dot com (URL) - North Carolina LEGO Users Group (URL) - Carolina Train (...) (24 years ago, 21-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) If were talking about a 'Brown Brick 1 x 4', you may want to go recheck your information. My inventory of the 7144 does not show that part, so I checked the instructions for the 7144. I don't see any of those. BTW, one could make a 1x4 brown (...) (24 years ago, 21-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Interestingly, the new "Bulk Bricks Building Tips" is for a Log Cabin and it does indead require a 1x4 brown brick according to the instructions. (Of course you can substitute 2 1x2 bricks but the instructions are for a 1x4 brick). Just look (...) (24 years ago, 21-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Out of the 24 Slave I sets I've sorted none have a 1x4 brown brick, there aren't any 1x4 bricks in that set actually. Lots of other goodies though. (junior) (24 years ago, 21-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Yes, sorry for the wrong information! I currently have built an alternate model (MOC) out of my two Slave 1s (using only their pieces though). Unfortunately, I used the included brown 2x4 Roof Tiles turned around as kinda 1x4 bricks. I should (...) (24 years ago, 21-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) OK, we'll let you go this time! (junior) (24 years ago, 21-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Look at the per-piece prices. Why buy expensive yellow bricks from S@H/LD when it's cheaper (per yellow piece) to buy the Classic/BASIC bins and buckets, even if you don't need anything but the yellow pieces? Steve (24 years ago, 21-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Eric I agree with you completely. I actually would like LD to sell a regular sloped brick set, like they used (sort of like they did before with the black bricks, but they omitted 2 parts). It would be nice to have and entire set of these in (...) (24 years ago, 21-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I was gonna say "Isn't that what 3033 tubs are for?", but then I realized that there's red and green in those, and you can get red and green from S&H in bulk... And there's no slopes in a 3303. So I won't say that. Besides, I can't even (...) (24 years ago, 22-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
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"J.D. Forinash" <foxtrot@cc.gatech.edu> wrote in message news:973blu$akh$1@cc...ome.com... [snip] (...) I bought a few more 3033s last night to help replentish my basic brick supply. I would really like to see an "alternative colors" tub (gray, (...) (24 years ago, 22-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Well, the space shuttle external tank *is* expensive, is it not ? (24 years ago, 22-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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"Manfred Moolhuysen" <moom@nospamchello.nl> wrote in message news:G96JyF.A1A@lugnet.com... (...) Frankly, I don't have the fuel to keep up with these puns much longer. -Tim (24 years ago, 22-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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(...) Still, I would realy like to see the (for us) mythical 3033 tub on sale here in Europe. Why not ? I've heard it's a great source for bricks in basic colors. (24 years ago, 22-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Hohman, that was bad. I was hoping that you'd avoid a reentry into this group unless your puns were better. If you can't improve your puns, I may lose my launch. ++Lar (24 years ago, 22-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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(...) Well, I was hoping you wouldn't come in here and try to boost your ego by outmanuvering me with puns. To be honest, its got me in a flat spin and I don't know how I can recover. I'm pretty sure I overshot myself when approaching this group, (...) (24 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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(...) You guys should really space these things out a bit. ~Grand Admiral Muffin Head (24 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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(...) Hear, hear! A few light years maybe... ROSCO (24 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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"Ross Crawford" <rcrawford@csi.com> wrote in message news:G973qo.7vB@lugnet.com... (...) Ok ok...enough. Stop parsec-uting us already. I see the concept of a pun has become quite nebulous here recently. Seeing bad puns like this makes me flare up, (...) (24 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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(...) Oh, go stick it up Uranu.....ooops better not say that.... ROSCO (24 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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(...) Hey! I never expected this kind of reaction. Especially not en masse. No one is forcing you to participate so if you don't like it, ISS just too bad. True, if you ask me my mission, control isn't it, but still, put up or shut up. (24 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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(...) All these puns are making me quasar. ~Grand Admiral Muffin Head (24 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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"Mark Sandlin" <sandlin@nwlink.com> wrote in message news:B6BBC0EA.DB42%s...ink.com... (...) I think you're the one with the warped sense of humor. I think you should leave the puns to us, no if's, and's, orbits. -Tim (24 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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(...) up. That's OK Larry - your puns are really heavenly. And I really hope to meteor next time you're in Oz 8?) ROSCO (24 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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(...) Put me down under "definitely" on your lists, please :-) ++Lar (24 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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(...) Ugh. That kinda attitude makes me want to black this hole group. -Shiri (24 years ago, 23-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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